Sunday, August 17, 2008

Organizing a research paper

Organizing a research paper would make sure that all the various specifications for writing a good content are handled well.

The various formalities of making a guide research paper are as follows:

1) Clear thesis statement and proper introduction: The introduction should be given in a proper manner comprising detailed background study and literature survey. The thesis statement should be stated clearly in the initial paragraph of the introduction section.


2) Clear research methodology: The research methodology should be stated clearly. The sampling design, data collection method and the analysis techniques should be clearly defined as these sections will be reviewed by the examiner thoroughly to grade your paper.


3) Practicability: The facts described in the report should appear to be workable and practical. The process described should be such which may be actually repeated else where. Therefore, all impractical descriptions and suggestions should be scrupulously avoided.


4) Mention of difficulties and shortcomings:
A good report should include the difficulties faced during the course of study. It should also clearly mention the failures met during the process. It should not hide the shortcoming of the study. On the other hand, these may be clearly mentioned so that the future researchers may take care not to repeat them and to try to avoid them as far as possible.


The above mentioned characteristics of good research report are incidentally, the characteristics of a good thesis leading to doctoral degree of university. The precautions mentioned here and the process of writing report may serve as guidelines to the students and teachers concerned with the program of writing thesis for different courses.


Good research papers irrespective of different courses and levels have some common characteristics and those were discussed above in this article. Another important thing about the research paper is that though these are mainly theoretical in nature those should also have a practical bearing so that there may be a healthy cooperation between theory and practice.

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